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We've spent a lot of time talking about what biblical accountability looks like at the national level - Bethel, Shawn Bolz, Mike Bickle, Chris Reed, or Michael Brown to name a few - examining cover-up culture that protects powerful leaders while silencing victims. But here's the question we keep getting in the comments and in our inboxes: What do I do when it's happening in my own church?

That's a harder question — and honestly, a more important one.

In this episode, Joshua Lewis, Michael Miller, and Michael Rowntree come back to ground level: your actual local church, where you know these people, where your kids go to Sunday school, where you serve. What does Matthew 18 actually look like when you're sitting across the table from an elder who won't listen? When do you escalate? When do you leave? When do you go public following 1 Timothy 5 — and is that ever right for a layperson to do?

We're walking through the biblical process step by step, giving you real categories for navigating one of the hardest situations a believer can face. This isn't about gossip, mob justice, or protecting institutions. It's about protecting people — and honoring the Word of God in the process.

0:00 – Introduction
3:10 – Local Church Exposure Questions
4:28 – Sins Requiring Public Exposure
15:37 – Handling Private Repentant Sin 
26:00 – Matthew 18 Church Discipline
36:38 – Church Whistleblower Accountability
45:26 – 1 Timothy 5 Elders Discipline
52:38 – When to Go Public 
54:45 – Leaving Abusive Church Leadership
1:00:23 – Dangers of Toxic Church Culture
1:01:35 – Healthy Repentance and Discipline
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Paul lists words of wisdom and words of knowledge in 1 Corinthians 12:8 alongside healings, miracles, prophecy, tongues, and interpretation. But he never defines them. That silence has sparked a real debate in the body of Christ, and in this episode Michael Rowntree works through it carefully.

Are these giftings simply elevated Bible teaching, or are they something more? Are they specific, Spirit-initiated operations that reveal hidden things, provide supernatural guidance, and speak into real-life situations? Michael walks through the major interpretive positions, from cessationist scholars like Dr. Tom Schreiner to charismatic perspectives.

He'll examine the biblical moments that make you stop: Jesus knowing the woman at the well's full story before she said a word (John 4:17–18). Peter confronting Ananias and Sapphira with information no one told him (Acts 5:1–11). Paul warning a ship's captain of coming disaster before a storm cloud appeared (Acts 27:9–10). Are those words of knowledge and words of wisdom in action?

By the end you'll have working definitions of revelation, prophecy, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom. And you'll sit with Paul's deeper question: are we using these gifts to exalt Jesus and build up the body of Christ, or to build a platform for ourselves?

0:00 – Introduction
0:04 – Defining the question
0:34 – Reading 1 Corinthians 12
1:52 – Cessationist teaching view
3:17 – Contextual pushback
5:22 – Word of knowledge defined
6:15 – Word of wisdom defined
7:19 – Cluster of extraordinary gifts
8:24 – Knowledge under prophecy
11:05 – Blending gift categories
14:34 – Defining key terms
16:00 – Using gifts rightly
16:37 – Closing thoughts
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Is “exposure ministry” biblical or just Christian gossip? In this episode of Remnant Radio, we dig into what the New Testament actually says about exposing sin, calling out false teachers, and practicing church discipline, and we ask the hard question: when does discernment become destruction of the body of Christ?

We walk through passages like Ephesians 5, Matthew 18, and 1 Timothy 5 and explore: when does the Bible command us to bring things into the light, who is responsible to confront it, and what is the end goal—repentance, restoration, and protection of the flock, or outrage and entertainment? If you’ve ever wondered whether calling out false teachers online is a prophetic assignment or a fleshly hobby, this episode will help you think biblically and critically.

0:00 – Introduction
0:47 – Exposure vs Coverup Culture
4:42 – Biblical Theology Exposure Ministry
11:15 – Leaders Accountable Biblical Law
14:38 – Elders Duty Investigating Sin
18:04 – Communal Responsibility
21:14 – Culpability Remaining Silent 
32:48 – Prophets Confronting Institutional Power
36:40 – Misapplying Matthew 18 Rebukes
39:13 – John the Baptist Public Rebukes
43:15 – Jesus Correcting Pharisees Publicly
52:08 – Paul Rebuking Peter 
54:57 – Protecting the Flock 
59:17 – Defining Slander 
106:04 – Navigating Unhealthy Church Cultures
115:14 – Closing 
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Can you train someone in spiritual gifts? Joshua Lewis walks through why training doesn’t manufacture gifts of the Spirit, but rather creates a biblical, accountable community to discover and steward the spiritual gifts God has already given.

If you’ve wondered how to grow in spiritual gifts without sliding into charismatic chaos, this episode will give you biblical categories, guardrails, and practical next steps. You’ll see why training in spiritual gifts is less about hype and more about cultivating a theologically serious, Jesus-centered community that pursues Christian theology with real accountability.

0:00 – Introduction
0:31 – What training isn’t
1:41 – Sovereign gifts explained
2:12 – Impartation, Paul’s role
2:51 – Rejecting unbiblical methods
3:45 – Training defined biblically
5:50 – Prophecy and healing model
6:12 – How God speaks
7:44 – Practicing prophecy safely
8:30 – Objections and schools
9:35 – Summary of training approach
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How does the non-physical mind and spirit interact with the biological brain? We're jumping in to the fascinating intersection of neuroscience, Christian faith, and mental health with board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Karl Lehman,  author of Mind and Brain: Separate but Integrated. 

Explore biblical evidence for the mind's independence from the brain—like near-death experiences and scriptural accounts of afterlife consciousness—while unpacking cutting-edge brain science on learned helplessness, OCD, depression, and trauma's impact on relational circuits. 

0:00 – Introduction
3:48 – Book purpose: bridging science and faith
5:00 – Mind-brain distinction biblical basis
10:06 – Scientific evidence: NDEs
20:07 – Brain-mind interaction
26:21 – Reductionism critique
31:20 – Mind makes brain sick: learned helplessness
40:00 – OCD studies: bidirectional effects
46:48 – Brain issues and repentance
50:51 – Trauma healing example
55:36 – Inner healing dos/don’ts
1:00:03 – Troubleshooting blockages
1:09:54 – Biblical support for inner healing
1:29:50 – Closing and resources

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